It seems there is a different standard for government employees and politicians - politicians get go funded all the time but furloughed gov employees may be violating the law in starting GoFundMe accounts to replace missing paychecks.
How great a system is this when a worker can't survive missing a few pay checks - capitalism is really working for the average dude and dudette.
Read all about it at CNN:
"Furloughed government employees created GoFundMe pages to survive the shutdown. That may be against the law.
As the partial government shutdown rolls on with no end in sight, many federal employees are scrambling to make ends meet. Some have turned to GoFundMe to raise money for living expenses
More then 1,500 campaigns have been set up on the crowdfunding site by furloughed government employees looking for help, GoFundMe spokeswoman Katherine Cichy told CNN. Together, the campaigns so far have raised more than $300,000.
But these workers may be breaking federal ethics laws with their online fundraising. And the government office that could offer them some clarity on that is closed -- because of the shutdown"
Full story:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/17/politics/shutdown-employees-catch-22-trnd/index.html
How great a system is this when a worker can't survive missing a few pay checks - capitalism is really working for the average dude and dudette.
Read all about it at CNN:
"Furloughed government employees created GoFundMe pages to survive the shutdown. That may be against the law.
As the partial government shutdown rolls on with no end in sight, many federal employees are scrambling to make ends meet. Some have turned to GoFundMe to raise money for living expenses
More then 1,500 campaigns have been set up on the crowdfunding site by furloughed government employees looking for help, GoFundMe spokeswoman Katherine Cichy told CNN. Together, the campaigns so far have raised more than $300,000.
But these workers may be breaking federal ethics laws with their online fundraising. And the government office that could offer them some clarity on that is closed -- because of the shutdown"
Full story:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/17/politics/shutdown-employees-catch-22-trnd/index.html
